Which ski goggles for cycling?
Andre Jute
invariably have two sets of goggles, one blue-tinted for bright
sunshine, one orange-tinted for cloudy days and poor light.
If you're just buying one set for cycling, buy the orange-tinted ones.
They're more useful all round, including polarizing car lights into
inoffensiveness at night, without cutting into your vision as much as
the blue-tinted ones.
If you wear spectacles under goggles, look also at ski-boarding
goggles; they often have better ventilation for anti-fogging than the
ski-specific goggles, with thicker foam, and they're cheaper too if
you don't go for the big brand names.
The orange-tint lenses in goggles, even cheap(ish -- twenty dollars US
say) also work better with photochromatic lenses in spectacles.
HTH.
Andre Jute
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Chip C
The goggles I've tried all cut too much into my peripheral vision; do
you find this? Makes it way to hard to glance over my shoulder to see
what's going on behind me, not being able to do the exorcist thing.
Chip C
Toronto
Jim A
> The goggles I've tried all cut too much into my peripheral vision; do
> you find this? Makes it way to hard to glance over my shoulder to see
> what's going on behind me, not being able to do the exorcist thing.
>
> Chip C
> Toronto
Being short-sighted myself, peripheral vision is something I've not
enjoyed for years. For most looking-behind I use a mirror. I only turn
my head (& body) to look behind when I need to be absolutely certain
what's going on behind me.
Andre Jute
I find that the curved glass is good enough. I rode 22km yesterday
with snowboarding/ski goggles and never found peripheral vision a
problem. See below about mirrors though.
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Andre Jute
I use Zefal's Dooback mirror on North Road bars; I rarely need to look
back. Yesterday I rode 22km with the yellow snowboard/ski goggles, and
I definitely saw more clearly; my problem is that my eyes are very
light sensitive, so the orange goggles help with clarity and just
about doubles the distance at which I can read a number plate in the
hazy, cloudy conditions of an Irish winter. I was checking for what
was wrong with the goggles the first time in several months I was
using them, but I never once felt it necessary to flip down my helmet
mirror, which I use (rarely) only in the heaviest traffic, so I guess
peripheral vision wasn't a problem. Nor was there any unusual swinging
of my head from side to side. At one stage on the return journey I
rode through a bunch of people and cars at a school just discharging,
with people and cars bombing in from the sides (Ireland is the
permanent keeper of the Olympic Gold for jaywalking!) and I prepared
as I approached them to haul the goggles down to my neck if they
should restrict my vision to the sides, but in the event I didn't as
there was no need.
As always, check the fit and the width of vision in the shop!
Andre Jute
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